Updated:\u00a0 With a link to Mike Lynch’s obituary in the Adirondack Daily Enterprise.<\/p>\n
A friend emailed yesterday to say that Edwin Ketchledge — known widely as “Ketch” — passed away this week at the age of 85.<\/p>\n
He was, according to my correspondent, “a hugely important figure in founding the summit steward program and conservation of alpine vegetation in the Adirondacks and throughout Northeast .”<\/p>\n
I just rang Neil Woodworth, head of the Adirondack Mountain Club, who remembered Ketch as an avid outdoorsman, and a decorated veteran of the 10th Mountain Division’s Italian campaign.<\/p>\n
According to the Watertown Daily Times<\/a>, he’ll be buried at Arlington National Cemetery.<\/p>\n Ketch was also an author and a scientists — and one of the creators of the now ubiquitous “if you carry it in, carry it out” slogan that has helped reduce the trash load in the North Country woods.<\/p>\n I only met Ketch once, on top of Whiteface Mountain, where he was talking with visitors and working — if I remember correctly — with a new class of summit stewards.<\/p>\n By coincidence, I was up on Poke-O-Moonshine yesterday, talking with one of the young folks who have helped keep that program alive.<\/p>\n We’ll have a brief remembrance of Ketch on Monday during the 8 o’clock hour, and you can read a nice obituary here at the Adirondack Almanack website<\/a> and a more detailed remembrance in the Adirondack Daily Enterprise<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Updated:\u00a0 With a link to Mike Lynch’s obituary in the Adirondack Daily Enterprise. A friend […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":12,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.northcountrypublicradio.org\/inbox\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2333"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.northcountrypublicradio.org\/inbox\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.northcountrypublicradio.org\/inbox\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.northcountrypublicradio.org\/inbox\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/12"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.northcountrypublicradio.org\/inbox\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2333"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.northcountrypublicradio.org\/inbox\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2333\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2335,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.northcountrypublicradio.org\/inbox\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2333\/revisions\/2335"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.northcountrypublicradio.org\/inbox\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2333"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.northcountrypublicradio.org\/inbox\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2333"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.northcountrypublicradio.org\/inbox\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2333"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}